Trefferliste "19th Century" - alle Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr

Kassia St Clair

The Race to the Future

The racers-an Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a con man, and several rival journalists-battle over steep inclines, through narrow mountain passages, and across the arid Gobi Dese…

Historical Performance Practice in Organ Playing. Vol. 1-3 + sheet music volume

Douglas RJ. Small

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and …

Owen Chase,

Tage des Grauens und der Verzweiflung

Die Männer vom Walfänger "Essex" trauen ihren Augen nicht und sind derart ungläubig, dass sie die Gefahr erst im letzten Moment begreifen. Mitten in der Waljagd sehen sie sich dem Ansturm eines …

David Mckean, M. Todd Bennett

The Flag Was Still There

A clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America's birth. "Brilliantly written and illuminating." ---Douglas Brinkley, New…

Henry B Lovejoy

Becoming Sarah Forbes Bonetta

Becoming Sarah Forbes Bonetta tells the extraordinary life story of a girl born Àìná in Òkè-Òdàn, captured during a Dahomey raid, and presented to a British naval officer in 1850. Renamed Sarah Forbes Bon…

Philip F Gura

Reading with the Transcendentalists

Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and communityTranscendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical,…

Shona Maclean

The Cromarty Library Circle

From the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Invernesscomes the unforgettable story of a Scottish town on the cusp of change and the group of townspeople whose lives will be irrevocably altered over t…

Sergio Luzzatto

The First Fascist

The First Fascist tells the story of Marquis de Morès, an architect of the Dreyfus Affair and a pioneer of blending populism, white supremacy, and open antisemitism. Through violent stunts and media savvy…

Nick Louras

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

In 1848, a group of young painters launched a movement that would change British art forever. John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt founded The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood a…

Joseph Sassoon

The Sassoons

A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade--…

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Anatomy of Empire

Syphilis had existed in Ottoman society since the sixteenth century, but it became an alarming public health problem in the nineteenth century. As the epidemic raged with population movements across provi…

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Anatomy of Empire

Syphilis had existed in Ottoman society since the sixteenth century, but it became an alarming public health problem in the nineteenth century. As the epidemic raged with population movements across provi…

Philip F Gura

Reading with the Transcendentalists

Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and communityTranscendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical,…

Justene Hill Edwards

Savings and Trust

In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for e…

Theara Thun

Epistemology of the Past

The encounter of indigenous history-making tradition with Western historical practice has been long neglected in Southeast Asian scholarship. Theara Thun offers one of the first critical and systematic st…

Sabrina Jeffries

What Happens in the Ballroom

"When members of the ton's elite need to host a dazzling party, they call upon the planning services of Elegant Occasions--three young ladies who've put their talents for fashion, food, and music to …

Natasha Fyffe, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Robert Howard

Richard Dadd

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, from July 25th to October 25th, 2026, this book brings together more than 60 works that track Richard Dadd's life and career.Richard Dadd…

Steve Friesen

Lakota Performers in Europe

From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksma…